. A complete geography. sthe people and favors thedevelopment of very differ-ent customs amongst theinhabitants of differentsections. Moreover, theease of approach from thenorth and east has led torepeated invasions fromthese directions. The re-sult has been that theempire of Austria-Hungaryis a mixture of many peo-ples. Germanic people,who form about a fourthof the entire population,are most numerous in Aus-tria ; while the Magyars, arace allied to the Mongo-lian, form nearly half thepopulation of Hungary;but races related to the^^ ^^ Slavs of Russia are more A Gypsy family and hut iu Austria
. A complete geography. sthe people and favors thedevelopment of very differ-ent customs amongst theinhabitants of differentsections. Moreover, theease of approach from thenorth and east has led torepeated invasions fromthese directions. The re-sult has been that theempire of Austria-Hungaryis a mixture of many peo-ples. Germanic people,who form about a fourthof the entire population,are most numerous in Aus-tria ; while the Magyars, arace allied to the Mongo-lian, form nearly half thepopulation of Hungary;but races related to the^^ ^^ Slavs of Russia are more A Gypsy family and hut iu Austria-Hungary. numerous than either of the other groups. There are, in addition, large numbers allied to theItalians and other peoples (Fig. 455). German is the official lan-guage and is spoken by the educated classes. There are at least a dozen languages In the empire, and often two orthree are spoken in a single town. To be sm-e, a similar statement mightbe made in regard to the United States, for we certainly have a great. A USTRIA-HUNGARY 451 variety of languages. But no matter from what part of the earth ourcitizens have come, they have, in most cases, greatly modified their for-mer customs and have become genuine Americans in spirit. The prin-cipal exception are the Chinamen, who, instead of identifying themselveswith us, remain Chinamen as long as they live. _ The many distinct peoples of Austria-Hungary resemble the Chinamenm their tendency to remain apart. They are not only dissimilar in reli-gion, ambitions, and customs, but their interests are often conflicting; andthey are jealous and suspicious of, and often hostile to, one another
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